The Panorama documentary blunder is the newest headline-grabbing capturing scandal to hit the BBC with Mr Davie on the helm.
Listed here are a number of the largest controversies he has confronted in his time on the prime of the BBC.
March 2023 – Gary Lineker suspended over tweet
Gary Lineker was suspended from Match Of The Day
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Lineker in contrast the language used to launch the coverage by the Conservatives with Thirties Germany in a tweet.
The previous footballer later left the BBC after utilizing Instagram to advertise a pro-Palestinian video that used a rat emoji, a logo utilized by the Nazis as a slur in opposition to Jewish individuals.
The then-Match of the Day host “apologised unreservedly” and stated he would “by no means knowingly share something antisemitic” earlier than he left the broadcaster in Could this 12 months.
February 2024 – Anti-Semitism row
Folks participate in an antisemitism protest exterior the BBC’s Broadcasting Home
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The broadcaster had obtained quite a lot of complaints about its reporting of the Israel-Hamas conflict and confronted additional scrutiny when it was found a contestant on the BBC sequence The Apprentice had made remarks on social media in regards to the battle.
Ministers and stress teams had been amongst these to lift issues in regards to the BBC’s reporting of the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7 2023 and the Israeli authorities’s bombing of the Gaza Strip.
July 2024 – Huw Edwards pleads responsible to accessing indecent images of kids
Former BBC broadcaster Huw Edwards at Westminster Magistrates’ Courtroom
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Edwards was the BBC’s highest-paid newsreader and had delivered the information that the late Queen had died in September 2022.
He was convicted following a 12 months of headlines which started when he was named because the presenter on the centre of a scandal over funds to a teen for sexually express pictures.
February 2025 – Gaza documentary narrated by Hamas official’s son
Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone documentary was discovered to have breached the BBC’s Broadcasting Code
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The BBC was compelled to tug a documentary on the conflict in Gaza after it emerged its 13-year-old narrator was the son of a Hamas official.
The company apologised and admitted “severe flaws” within the making of the Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone documentary in February.
The movie, which was made for the BBC by the impartial manufacturing firm HOYO Movies, was faraway from BBC iPlayer after it emerged the kid narrator, Abdullah, is the son of Ayman Alyazouri, who has labored as Hamas’s deputy minister of agriculture.
Mr Davie later informed the Tradition, Media and Sport Committee that Gaza has been “the hardest editorial protection problem we’ve ever had”.
July 2025 – MasterChef presenters axed
John Torode and Gregg Wallace had been each axed from MasterChef
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MasterChef presenter Gregg Wallace was axed by the BBC following a nine-month investigation into misconduct claims.
The 60-year-old introduced his departure in a prolonged Instagram assertion, marking the top of his 21-year run with the broadcaster.
Wallace had been an everyday fixture on BBC screens for nearly 20 years, greatest recognized for co-hosting MasterChef, Celebrity MasterChef and MasterChef: The Professionals alongside co-judge John Torode.
July 2025 – Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury efficiency broadcast reside
Bob Vylan acting on the West Holts Stage, in the course of the Glastonbury Competition
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Punk rap duo had been investigated by the police over feedback made throughout their Glastonbury efficiency.
Singer Bobby Vylan led chants of “dying to the IDF (Israel Defence Forces)” in the course of the group’s present on the West Holts Stage, which was livestreamed by the BBC.
In an announcement on the time the broadcaster stated: “The BBC respects freedom of expression however stands firmly in opposition to incitement to violence.”
November 2025 – Trump documentary ‘doctored’
President Donald Trump speaks at a “Save America March” in Washington DC on January 6, 2021
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Mr Davie introduced he was resigning because the BBC’s Director-Normal following claims {that a} speech had been selectively edited within the documentary, Trump: A Second Likelihood?
The chief government of BBC Information, Deborah Turness, additionally introduced her resignation on Sunday, explaining to workers that the “ongoing controversy across the Panorama on President Trump has reached a stage the place it’s inflicting harm to the BBC – an establishment that I really like”.
The BBC error got here to gentle after a memo by Michael Prescott, a former exterior adviser to the BBC’s editorial requirements committee, raised issues in the summertime about the way in which clips of Trump’s speech had been spliced collectively.
Nevertheless, Trump had made the feedback almost an hour aside and actually had been talking about elections being “corrupt” when he made the “combat like hell” comment.
